TIME IN TRANSPORT: A PERVERTED PROBLEM? ARGUMENTS FOR A FRESH LOOK AT TIME UTILITY RESEARCH AND APPLICATION. TOI REPORT SUMMARY

Time in transport is a wide-ranging subject and one in which great interest has been shown, as indicated by the extensive literature. However, this interest has been completely dominated by one aspect, i.e. the conversion of time to money and different ideas of how time saved may be expressed in monetary terms. This is important enough, but only a limited part of the whole subject. But the literature, which includes consultants' reports and traffic investment plans for specific cases, has ignored the basic problems which must be solved first in order for an economic evaluation to be meaningful.

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  Swedish National Road and Traffic Research Institute

  Drottning Kristinas Vaeg 25
  S-11428 Stockholm,   Sweden 
• Authors:
  • STRAND, S
• Publication Date: 1989

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 17-18
• Serial:
  • Nordic Road and Transport Research
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
  • ISSN: 1101-5179
  • Serial URL: http://www.vti.se/nordic

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic conditions; Economic impacts; Time; Transportation
• Old TRIS Terms: Time factor
• Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00485465
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 31 1990 12:00AM